By: Chris Jones/IFLScience The sky was lit up on the night of 4th October 2017 a meteor tore through the atmosphere over the Shangri-La County in Yunnan Province of China. The meteor was spotted at around 8 pm local time, and luckily, many locals captured the spectacular event on camera. According to NASA’s Center For Near-Earth Object Studies,…
The Break-Up Of A Colossal Ice Shelf Exposed An Ancient And Mysterious Ecosystem
By: Robin Andrews/IFLScience After months and months of almost but not quite breaking away from Antarctica, a trillion-tonne chunk of the Larsen C Ice Shelf finally detached itself and drifted off into the Southern Ocean. As it so happens, this chilly divorce may have been a good thing, as it’s exposed a brand-new, never before seen ecosystem hiding just beneath…
Google’s New Earbuds Can Translate 40 Languages Instantly In Your Ear
By: Patrick Caughill/Futurism Google has announced the upcoming release of the Google Pixel Buds, earbuds that are capable of translating 40 languages. The device will be available in November for $159. Google is not far from the heels of Apple and is rapidly gaining ground. The internet and tech giant has just announced a new addition…
Gravitational Wave Researchers Just Won The Nobel Prize For Physics
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFLScience The Royal Swedish Academy of Science has given the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne for their work with the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration and the 2015 discovery of gravitational waves. This announcement sparked little surprise as gravitational waves were tipped to be the likely winning subject of this year’s physics…
Researchers Have Restored Consciousness In A Man Who Spent The Last 15 Years In A Vegetative State
By: Stephen Luntz/IFL Science Scientists at the French National Center for Scientific Research have used nerve stimulation to induce signs of consciousness in a man who has been in a vegetative state almost half his life. The unfortunate individual is still far from complete wakefulness, but his case demonstrates consciousness can be restored after a much…
Sex Robot Has Traumatic Experience At Technology Festival And Is Forced To Retire Many Body Parts
By: Dami Olonisakin/IFL Science It has not been a great day for Samantha the sex robot: The blonde-haired, blue-eyed doll worth over $4,000 was reportedly inappropriately groped by sex-hungry men at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. Her inventor, Sergi Santos, shared that “she was heavily soiled” by the men. Santos added that two fingers were broken whilst they were mounting Samantha’s…
Gravitational Waves Have Officially Been Detected Again
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFL Science Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the VIRGO collaboration have announced in a press conference the detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes for the fourth time. However, this time it was seen by three observatories. The two black holes that merged are located 1.7 billion light-years away, with a mass of…
Newly Developed HIV Treatment Can Fight 99 Percent Of All Strains
By: Josh Davis/IFLScience In the continual struggle to effectively treat HIV, a disease that kills millions of people a year, researchers may have made an exciting breakthrough. In a new study, scientists report that they have developed a new type of antibody that could potentially treat, and even prevent HIV infection. One of the main reasons why HIV…
Hyperloop One Now Has $245 Million To Make The Transportation System A Reality
By: Kyree Leary/Futurism Hyperloop One has received $85 million from investors as part of a new round of funding, bringing the total amount the company has raised to $245 million. The company is now worth more than $700 million. Hyperloop One announced the conclusion of a new round of funding on September 21, revealing an additional $85…